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Blue Bottles

Blue Bottles

1928Short⏱️ 26m
ShortComedyCrime
6.7
IMDB Rating
69 votes

As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the law assemble. The confrontation between order and disorder ensues, with our her...

Director
Ivor Montagu
Writers
Frank Wells, H.G. Wells
Stars
Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett, Dorice Fordred
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
💬 6
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester
as Elsa
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Joe Beckett
as PC Spiffkins
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Dorice Fordred
as Maggie
Marie Wright
Marie Wright
as Landlady
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton
as Burglar
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Norman Haire
as Crook

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Angle Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

based on the works of h.g. wellsactor shares first name with character

🎯 Categories

ComedyCrimeShort

⭐ Featured Review

A spoof crime melodrama superbly devised and performed.
by snaunton2001-12-08
9/10

"So perfect are the performances in this silent send-up of crime melodramas that the rare intertitles are redundant. The plot is simple - Elsa, the innocent heroine (not quite innocently) blows the policeman's whistle she finds outside the house in which the criminals' convention is assembling. The entire police force, the armed forces, all respond to her alarm and she is caught up in the shooting match between police and criminals, her hat an increasingly battered target in the violent turmoil around her. Consistently with its genre, our heroine unknowingly captures the criminals an..."

💡 Did You Know?

First film for Charles Laughton.

📖 Synopsis

As criminals assemble for a convention, a policeman investigates and is abducted. A young woman finds his whistle and blows it. The full forces of the law assemble. The confrontation between order and disorder ensues, with our her...